Apex Legends Update 1.05 Patch Notes – March 19th

An array of new additions, including the Apex Legends Season 1 Wild Frontier Battle Pass, have been released by Respawn on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Without further ado, let’s dive right into the Apex Legends update 1.05 patch notes for March 19th.

Today’s update is NOW LIVE on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Here are the file sizes:

PC – 3.03GB

Xbox One – 5.39GB

PS4 – 3GB

PLEASE NOTE: The official patch notes can be found at the very bottom of this article.

Apex Legends Update 1.05 (March 19)

Prior to the release of the Apex Legends 1.05 update, Respawn provided a host of details regarding what we can expect on Reddit as well as many other Social Media platforms.

Apex Legends Season 1 Battle Pass – Wild Frontier

As part of this patch, the highly-awaited Season 1 has also been released in-game. Players can discover new content, including all the rewards this season has to offer. Users can also acquire the Battle Pass, in return for a host of goods.

The Battle Pass features a total of 100 tiers. If you decide to purchase the better version, however, you’ll have the ability to skip the initial 25 tiers.

In addition to the Battle Passes, an array of free rewards are also up for grabs. Previous leaks via exclusive Gaming INTEL sources suggested that this would be the case.

18 Wild Frontier Stat Trackers

5 Apex Packs

1 Wild Frontier Legend Skin

New Character – Octane

Since Apex Legends’ initial launch, an array of leaks had been surfacing suggesting that an-all new character called ‘Octane’ would be arriving in-game. These leaks have turned out to be correct, following the announcement from Respawn confirming Octane would be coming alongside the launch of Season 1.

Of course, all characters come with several exclusive abilities which significantly differentiate them from all other legends. If you are wielding Octane, you’ll be granted with the following abilities:

Passive Ability: Swift Mend

Octane restores health over time if you are not taking damage.

Tactical Ability: Adrenaline Junkie

This allows you to move 30% faster for 8 seconds. Costs 10% Health. Immune to slows while active.

Ultimate Ability: Launch Pad

This feature was spotted in-game last week, thus most players have a rough idea of how this particular aspect will play out. Players can deploy a jump pad to catapult themselves through the air after contact is made.

Bug/Exploit Fixes

Bug/exploit fixes are usually a predominant part of each patch. Well, have been for Apex Legends particularly. Unsurprisingly, it appears an array of fixes are also on the horizon with Apex Legends update 1.05.

Prior to this update, alongside a variety of immediate bug fixes, Respawn mentioned that they’re “hunting down exploits and bugs”. Therefore, if the official Apex Legends patch notes are filled with fixes, it’s not going to be much of a surprise.

NEW LEGEND: OCTANE

High-Speed Daredevil

If it doesn’t involve diving, leaping, plummeting, or racing, then Octane wants nothing to do with it. Always the life of the party, Octane truly believes winning the Championship isn’t enough… not if you didn’t cheat death at least twice to get there.

Passive: Swift Mend

While not taking damage, Octane restores 1 health every 2 seconds.

Tactical: Stim

Move 30% faster for 6 seconds. Costs health to use. While active, Octane is affected less by attacks that cause slowdown. 2 second recharge.

STABILITY & PERFORMANCE

We’ve got some fixes in this patch that will improve stability on PC but we know there are still issues out there we need to address. We also added crash reporting so we can better understand how to tackle the issues we haven’t solved yet and address future ones.

Improved stability for various GPU configurations.

Capped PC FPS to 300 to balance improving stability but still letting you folks enjoy those sweet frames.

We really want to fix any crashes people happen to get on PC. We also respect our player’s privacy. So, if the PC game crashes, it will write “apex_crash.txt” to your “Documents” folder. This tiny file is plain text, so you can easily see for yourself that it has no personal information. If you choose to share this file with us, it will tell us whether the crash was in Apex or in third party software. If the crash was in Apex, our programmers can use the information to find and fix it. If you experience a crash, please include this file when you report.

We protect your personal information.

You can easily see everything in the file yourself; we have no secrets.

You’re in control of whether we ever see the file.

Added Report a Player feature for cheating and abuse on PC.

Players can now report cheaters they encounter in-game and it’ll be sent directly to Easy Anti-Cheat. You can do this from either the spectate view after dying or when looking at your team’s Banner Cards in the Squad tab.

We have lots of other work going on behind the scenes and this remains high priority for us. We won’t be able to share many specifics of what we’re doing but we’ll strive to provide updates on progress for the things we can talk about.

As I’m finishing the notes this morning, 499,937 accounts and counting have been banned for cheating.

Speed hacking: We do currently have anti-speed hacking in Apex Legends, but it’s not being as effective as intended due to a bug that we believe we’ve identified and will be addressing in our next server update. Will provide ETA for it when I have it. Working to get it out ASAP.

Added Report a Player for abuse on Consoles

You can report players from the spectate view after dying or when looking at your team’s Banner Cards in the Squad tab.

Optimized skydiving to improve overall server performance.

Fixed bug where sometimes the client could crash when opening Apex Packs one right after the other.